Bromine Blog

Bromine 2 released. Selenium has never been easier.

Bromine — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:23:56 GMT

The Bromine team is proud to present Bromine 2.

Why does selenium has to be so hard to use we asked ourselves?

It doesn't was the answer we came up with!

Bromine is a web-interface for the great selenium testing tools, that aims to make the life of testers easier.

Bromine is a fully fledged QA program. It integrates projects, requirements, testcases, tests written in selenium, test results reports, issue tracking and results analysis in one brightly colored package.

Just to make it that much easier we've bundled it all into a one click installer including everything you need to start testing right away. Download, click, start testing.

>> one-click installer

Select your tests from a drop-down and just press 'run'
Results stored in database and shown in neat html
Supports tests written in java, ruby, php as well as core tests (html tables)
Integrated issue tracking
Project oriented structure

Bromine arrives at OpenQA

Bromine — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:31:58 GMT

Bromine is a fully fledged QA tool that integrates with Selenium Core and Selenium Remote Control.

It makes the life of testers, test managers, developers and other people who would have an interest in how the development of a web application is progressing, easier.

Test managers can keep track of projects, requirements, tests, defects and much more with just the click of a button.

Testers now have a place where they can run tests they have recorded with the bundled Selenium IDE formats, currently only PHP is supported, as well as monitor these with the option to submit a defect and assign the defect to the person responsible for the given test subject.

Other features of Bromine includes

Test cases.
Test plan.
Run test manually guided by a step by step test case.
Selenium RC node manager.
And much more.

Go to http://bromine.openqa.org/download.jsp and try it out for yourself!

Crap, Cake and Collaboration

Bromine — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:51:47 GMT

So, Bromine has been in the ether for some time now. How did it fare?

Well, the honest truth is that alot of people confirmed what we already knew. It's codebase is a mess. It works, but it's a mess. Hard to understand, maintain, upgrade and develop on. It's been coded by 3 testers, with no proffesional PHP experience and it shows.

Moreover it's not documented well enough.

It's not all dark and loomy though, for people are stepping up to the challenge. People are submitting Jiras and some have shown a real interrest in the development of Bromine. As such we've set up a google group for the old and newcome developers and we are facing entirely new and interresting challenges. New methods and habits of communication as well as development must be practised to allow everyone in on what has untill now been a rather exclusive knowledge of Bromines darkest code-bits.

Bromine is slowly becoming a true FOSS (Free Open Source Software) project, rather than the in-house test tool it has been so far.

Things are afoot, as Olle put it, and you should look forward to these new times.

Crap might just literally turn into cake in the near future

If you are interested in joining our efforts just drop me a pm